Kudos to Sumiko for providing a (standard) process/service for speaker placement. I'd be curious to hear how well it works when people try it.
Don't many speaker manufacturers provide directions for optimal placement in their manuals? For example, I recall when I owned a pair of Maggies that the manual went into great detail regarding optimal placement that worked very well. The only problem with those speakers was that achieving the optimal placement was not always very practical in my rooms, particularly from a WAF perspective. I marked the optimal location, picked the speakers up and moved them there when I could so the Maggies could sing. The problem of course was that when I did not place them optimally for whatever reason, the results were limited compared to the optimum, which bothered me as it would I expect any true audio affectionado.
Those of us fortunate enough to have a good sized dedicated listening room to do what is needed without constraint are very lucky audiophiles indeed. I have such a room, but it is only 12X12 (yes square!). It is cozy and things sound very good given the size, but is no substitute for a larger room to really let things sing. I have a larger room that I believe I've optimized speaker/room interactions in pretty well, but I must share it with the family, so it is not always available when desired.
Can't have everything, I guess!
Don't many speaker manufacturers provide directions for optimal placement in their manuals? For example, I recall when I owned a pair of Maggies that the manual went into great detail regarding optimal placement that worked very well. The only problem with those speakers was that achieving the optimal placement was not always very practical in my rooms, particularly from a WAF perspective. I marked the optimal location, picked the speakers up and moved them there when I could so the Maggies could sing. The problem of course was that when I did not place them optimally for whatever reason, the results were limited compared to the optimum, which bothered me as it would I expect any true audio affectionado.
Those of us fortunate enough to have a good sized dedicated listening room to do what is needed without constraint are very lucky audiophiles indeed. I have such a room, but it is only 12X12 (yes square!). It is cozy and things sound very good given the size, but is no substitute for a larger room to really let things sing. I have a larger room that I believe I've optimized speaker/room interactions in pretty well, but I must share it with the family, so it is not always available when desired.
Can't have everything, I guess!
